Singapore VAT rate
Goods and Services Tax (Singapore's VAT) standard rate on taxable supplies of goods and services and on imports.
| Current value | 9 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2024-01-01 |
| Official source | Goods and Services Tax Act 1993, s 16; two-step rate increase legislated by the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Act 2022 (No. 35 of 2022; Government Gazette Acts Supplement No. 34, 9 Dec 2022); IRAS 'Current GST rates' |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Single standard rate of 9% since 1 Jan 2024 (final step of the Budget 2022 two-step increase: 7%->8% on 1 Jan 2023, 8%->9% on 1 Jan 2024). No reduced rates. Zero-rating (0%) applies to exports of goods and international services; exempt supplies include most financial services, sale/lease of residential property, investment precious metals and digital payment tokens. GST registration is compulsory above S$1 million annual taxable turnover. Amendment act text verified on Singapore Statutes Online (https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Acts-Supp/35-2022/ — loaded; SSO returns HTTP 403 to plain fetchers, loads in a real browser). IRAS rate history table verified on the cited page. Access quirk: iras.gov.sg is a client-side-rendered SPA — static fetches return only the navigation shell; a JS-rendering browser is required.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-04-01 | 3 | — |
| 2003-01-01 | 4 | — |
| 2004-01-01 | 5 | — |
| 2007-07-01 | 7 | — |
| 2023-01-01 | 8 | — |
Get it programmatically
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# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/sg/vat/history?from=2020-01-01
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